Category: Odds ‘n Sods

Reader Tim R. suggested this by Matt Phillips of Quartz: One chart that tells the story of US debt from 1790 to 2011 G.G. flagged this: Silver price to ‘increase 400 percent in three years’ Marc Faber: ‘The Great Reset Is Coming!’ The “Sell Off” Has Already Begun Which Could Soon Turning Into Panic Selling Everything Is Lining Up For A Huge Future For Farmland Items from The Economatrix: Stocks At 4-Month Lows As Fiscal Cliff Looms The Fiscal Cliff Is A Mole Hill Compared To The TAG Program Expiry Silver’s Outperformance Over Gold To Be Staggering In The Long …

I heard about a new blog that might be of interest: Tactical Tales.    o o o Michael Z. Williamson (SurvivalBlog’s Editor at Large) recommended this instructional video: Racking a Slide Like a Lady    o o o After a three year wait while MGM nearly went though a full-on bankruptcy and laughably the villains were digitally changed from China to North Korea (just for the sake of boot-licking political correctness), the re-make of Red Dawn will finally be coming to theaters on November 21st.    o o o K.T. mentioned a snow track system for 4WD trucks that is …

Reader Tony S. spotted this: 100 Free Survival Downloads    o o o F.J. liked this: Hinged Canvas Hides Your Alarm Panel [or other items]    o o o Regular content contributor F.G. sent: Drifting Fish Farm Yields First Harvest in US Waters    o o o Dulce et decorum est: Chicago’s gun buyback helps group pay for youth shooting camp. (Thanks to Janet U. for the link.)    o o o Huelga! Transport chaos across Europe as millions take to streets in austerity protest and police fire rubber bullets at rioters

Rockaway, Queens: “Like a Scene From an End of the World Movie”    o o o Over at the Silver Vigilante web site: Looper: A Small Portrait of Silver    o o o USA Today recently published an article that briefly quoted me: For ‘preppers,’ every day could be doomsday    o o o Wal-Mart has posted their Black Friday sale ads and they included a Savage 12 gauge pump-action riotgun at only $169. Needless to say, not all stores will carry these, and some Wal-Marts in the big cities don’t carry any guns. I expect an early sellout, despite …

Mat P. sent another reminder that folks shouldn’t eat mushrooms unless they are 100% sure of what they are collecting: Wild mushrooms kill 2, sicken 4    o o o Now Canadian police are parroting the same agenda-pushing SPLC “expert” rubbish: Anti-terrorism experts say lone white supremacists are the biggest threat in Canada. Alarmingly, anti-racist preppers, home schoolers, tax protestor, and various other conservatives have been tarred with the same brush as the radical anti-semitic neo-Nazi skinheads and other racists. By doing so, the leftist pressure groups seek to demonize anyone who doesn’t share their views.    o o o …

News from Maker Faire, Nigeria: Teens Create A Way To Use Urine As Fuel    o o o Florida officials order partial recount in tight House race between Rep. West and Democratic challenger Murphy. (Gee, could it perhaps be because of the 113% to 158% voter turnout? See: Massive Voter Fraud in St. Lucie County, Florida. Avalanche Lily says: Obviously they need to more than just re-count the ballots. Have another election, confirm IDs, and use purple dye to prevent ballot stuffing!)    o o o Reader S.E.M. gave us: Reason # 1,492,683 not to live in an urban area. …

Reader M.E.W. suggested this essay by Dean Kalahar: America Has Sown the Seeds Of Its Own Demise    o o o How nice of them to wait until after the election to mention this: After Obama win, U.S. backs new U.N. arms treaty talks    o o o More legal trouble for Sheila Dixon, one of Mikey Bloomberg’s cabal of gun-grabbing, graft-greedy mayors: Former mayor charged with probation violation. (Thanks to G.G. for the link.) She called the charges “a setback”. (Coming up $15,000 short may nullify her sweetheart deal with the court, which had allowed her to keep her …

College Park man fights to keep vegetable garden in front yard. (Our thanks to frequent contributor H.L. for sending the link.)    o o o Is Pakistan’s Paranoia Pushing it Into a Nuclear War with India?    o o o Commercial airliner crash? Yes, it does matter where you sit. (Thanks to F.G. for the link.)    o o o Camping Survival has posted an instructional video on how to roast green coffee beans at home.    o o o Man-Eating Leopard Devours 15. (Thanks to F.G. for the link.)

Reader Greg G. sent a link to a video of a hour-long lecture by James Howard Kunstler about his book The Long Emergency.    o o o Some refreshing honesty in advertising: Cullman Mobile Home Liquidation in Alabama.    o o o If you own a Kindle reader (or have Kindle software for your laptop), then you might as well load it up with lots of free classic books. Check out the Catalog of Project Gutenberg E-Books (MOBI Edition) There are thousands of free tiles. All of them that are in “MOBI” format can be read with an Kindle-compatible. And …

“To better serve you…” Baltimore buses to tape driver, passenger conversations. (Just one more reason to avoid the eastern metroplexes. Vote with your feet, folks.)    o o o Reader J.B.G. sent: Homeowners From Staten Island To Jersey Shore Have Stern Warnings For Looters. Meanwhile, we read: Fear of looting grips NYC as new storm threatens    o o o Some news from England by way of Ol’ Remus: Shooting champ is facing jail over huge cache of ammunition. As a comparison to hoplophobic England, here in The Un-named Western State (TUWS), an accumulation of 40,000 rounds is just considered …

SurvivalBlog reader W.J. wrote to remind me about letter in our blog archives that bears a new mention: Hurricane Preparedness Steps    o o o Northeastern Nuke Plants Came Close to Disaster, With Sandy. Reader Pierre M. sent some news that you might have missed: Storm Impact on Nuclear Plants – Oyster Creek, Salem, Indian Point, Peach Bottom, Nine Mile Point and Feds: “Atmospheric steam dump” at New Jersey nuclear plant — All 6 circulators lost at Salem due to debris, high river level.    o o o G.O. mentioned their editorial in a Utah newspaper that decries the funneling …

Avalanche Lily and I recently watched a movie (via Netflix streaming) that we can recommend: Sarah’s Key. Yes, it is the umpteenth movie about the WWII Holocaust, but its particular value is that it shows how obediently the Vichy French authorities became collaborators of Nazi mass murder, and how indifferent the general populace was to the Jewish roundup and deportation. A good companion piece is the documentary The Eye of Vichy. Is there a Velodrome or Drancy in our future? God forbid. Be vigilant for our cherished liberty.    o o o Some quite troubling news from Canada: Mask Avengers: …

Reader Dana H. suggested this in The Wall Street Journal: Lessons from the Ultimate Safe Houses    o o o In New York’s Public Housing, Fear Creeps In With the Dark. J.W.R.’s Comment: Now extrapolate this to a situation where there is no natural gas pressure, and no water pressure for the fire hydrants. Oh, and what if there was no prospect of grid power being restored for weeks… Somehow, I think I’ll be much safer here in TUWS.    o o o A Utah Perspective on Sandy (No, not Sandy, Utah, but rather Hurricane Sandy): Caught in the dark: …

UPDATE: Wiser heads (than Doomberg) have prevailed and the marathon race has been cancelled. His Honor The Mayor’s True Colors: Bloomberg Diverts Needed Food and Generators Away From Desperate Staten Island to NYC Marathon. (Thanks to reader J.B.G. for the link.) They are running a marathon through this? ‘It’s like the Wild West’: Lawlessness and fear take over the outer boroughs as millions in misery endure a sixth day without power    o o o Reader “Nexus” mentioned another piece of evidence of a insidious, lamentable and systemic decline in our Constitutional rights, reported by Declan McCullagh: Court OKs warrantless …

Reader “Crazy Mike” recommended an instructive creative carpentry video that shows a great method for hiding valuables in place sight. The magnetic locks are clever.    o o o For any who doubts that there is a liberal bias in academia: Law Professors back President Obama over Mitt Romney 72% to 19%, according to Brian Leiter’s poll.    o o o Readers Mike S. and Matt H. both sent an interesting article with a very poorly-written (or quite biased) headline: Seattle residents refuse to arm themselves. (I would have instead titled it: “Washingtonians arm themselves in record numbers.”) But of …